Conservatism & the Politicization of Culture0

• Culture
• July 26, 2017

There is an aspect to the conservative abandonment of culture I find distressing: the increasing politicization within the conservative movement. I have witnessed a movement which began with the insights of thinkers like Russell Kirk into the primacy of imaginative vision, or what Richard Weaver called “the metaphysical dream,” turn into a highly politicized phenomenon